if i rethink, it was a gateway drug for me... gateway to eat mushrooms and acid and psy chemicals between the age of 20-27
All these trips made me understand the world and people and myself better and also I think it made me a better person. so in the end it was a gateway to something good.
From my 'childhood' smoker friends only a very few smokes still, and NO ONE went to 'hard drugs' or got addicted to some serious shit.